In the patch-gone-live there are 12 default emotes, and more will come. The standard lot are: go, hello, affirmative, thanks, clap, laugh, surender, rage, you're done, negative, provoke, and come here. All you need for a nuanced conversation, in other words, although no dance. You call up emotes by pressing the tilde key and using a radial menu.

PUBG friends lists can be 50 people big, and apparently it's a one-way follower system not a mutual "soandso wants to be your friend, do you accept?" type affair. You don't have to be Steam friends to be PUBG friends. There's also now main menu voice chat, so you can speak to your team while there.

Optimisation improvements continue to reduce lag and make the game smoother, and there are numerous bug fixes across the board. Incidentally, limb and vehicle penetration has been held back from this month. "Unfortunately, there's been an alteration in our plans," the PUBG team said, "but we will be sure to give an update on this at a later time."